it Israel approved of him Confiscation of 12,700 acres of land in occupied West Bank, the largest land grab Palestinian according to the Israeli organization Peace Now, the area over the past three decades.
This is a record confiscation since the Oslo Peace Accords (1993), the anti-settlement organization points out, after these lands, located in the Jordan Valley, were declared “state property” by the Israeli authority responsible for land affairs in the Palestinian territories.
The government made the decision in June, but published it only yesterday.
In total, 23,700 acres of land was declared the property of the State of Israel this year.
“Lands that have been declared state property are no longer considered Palestinian property by the Israeli authorities, which prevents them from using this land, and in addition, Israel leases state land exclusively to Israelis,” Peace Now stated. :
Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that Israeli settlers in the West Bank attacked Israeli security forces, who dismantled an illegal immigrant outpost and destroyed arbitrary temporary housing on private Palestinian land.
Israeli settlers threw Molotov cocktails at the forces and burned a car to protest the demolition of the illegal outpost and makeshift housing.
Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967. During the Six Day War. Today, some 700,000 Israeli settlers live there, among three million Palestinians. According to the Peace Now organization, in 1993 there were 250 thousand settlers there.
Israel distinguishes between settlements built with government approval and other settlements that are sometimes legalized by law. According to international law, all these Israeli settlements are illegal.
Peace Now says more new Israeli housing has been established in the occupied West Bank since Israel’s far-right government came to power in late 2022 than at any time since the organization began keeping records in 2012.